Hi, On 2018-02-16 09:58:29 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Anna Akenteva <a.akent...@postgrespro.ru> writes: > > [ widen StringInfoData max length to size_t ] > > I find this scary as heck. Have you spent any time looking at the > side effects? There are probably hundreds of places that expect that > stringinfos won't get larger than 1GB.
FWIW, I think we're going to have to bite that bullet sooner rather than later. I do agree it's not going to fix this issue for real, and that we're not going to backpatch it. Greetings, Andres Freund